"There are three sorts of people in..." - Quote by Benjamin Franklin

“Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.”

“Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.”

“The handshake of the host affects the taste of the roast”

“Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds a little afterwards that he is wicked, faithless, and then he meets with another of the same character. When a man experiences this often, and more particularly from those whom he considered his most dear and best friends, at last, having frequently made a slip, he hates the whole world, and thinks that there is nothing sound at all in any of them.”

“Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.”

“No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.”

“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”

“O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature.”

“He had come so far from himself that I don't think he knew who he was anymore.”